Anyone initially read this as “orphan crushing”?
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I read it accurately as urchin crushing, but still thought they were talking about destitute children at first (a la Oliver Twist).
I was about to get all political with it too … as the theme of one of the political parties in the US
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I straight up thought we were crushing them with kelp. Which my first two thoughts were; why that is a terrible thing to do and I am sure there is a better way to crush them than kelp.
Fucking brains they are an odd thing.
You don’t have to crush sea urchins. You can eat them! And they’re delicious!
I'm betting you didn't read the article
I mean, this is lemmy.
But also, yeah, I didn’t realize they were actually so pervasive that they’ve destroyed 96% of the kelp forests in that area.
And they are also eating them, but specify these urchins specifically have less roe and other edible parts, so they are basically more trouble than they're worth to eat
Sea urchins as a food source was addressed in the article:
Red urchins are favored over the purple urchins because they contain more edible uni or roe inside, but commercial divers say the amount has shrunk with less kelp.
Chefs have started serving purple urchins to build a market.